001Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Jones. All right, can you please make sure that your phones are either turned off or on silent? I see that we don't have any comments for the public section. Mr. Van Orman, did you want to start? Absolutely. Uh I'd like to welcome up uh Mr. Banano and Ms. Griffith. Our uh two of our high school science teachers and two of our advisors uh for this year's Science Olympiad teams. Uh with them tonight are some some students as well, so I'm going to turn uh the presentation over to Mr. Banano and Ms. Griffith. Thank you, Mr. Van Orman. It's nice to be here with all these seniors. Um Mrs. Babigan, rest of the Board of Education, all others
002present tonight, thank you for this opportunity to share with you recent successes with our Science Olympiad program. On Saturday, January 31st, 15 Right Creek High School students traveled to Le Moyne College for regional competition with 32 other teams. This year we had six new students that had never competed in a competition of Science Olympiad before. I feel our team was very young, yet very determined to make a difference as they understood our culture. When the day was done, Right Creek students celebrated top 10 achievements in 10 out of the possible 23 events that day. Within those 10 events, or those 10 events that we scored in, four were first place finishes. The only team to have more first place finishes that day was the overall winner of Fayetteville-Manlius. And of course, I'd like to remind
003everyone in and audience land watching at home that there are no classes like in sports for Science Olympiad. Rather, all schools uh compete in one division, no matter what the school size is and the amount of support received. We've always felt that the underdog mentality pushes us as a team to only harder achieve towards our goals. Uh and the coaches have nothing but gratitude and praise for how our competitors represented not only themselves, but Wright Creek that snowy day. Seemed like it was only snowing in Wright Creek, but that's another uh We're very excited about our future and we're very thankful for our seniors as they have led our program to this prestigious representation. So, uh I think this picture kind of captures a wonderful moment. Thank you, Mrs. DeVinny. Uh we had no idea.
004Write It Do It is the event that Kaylin is pictured in. And we had an idea that we had first place before that was announced. So, we kind of let some of the photographers know that. Uh and they captured the mo- moment I think very well. If that doesn't capture Wright Creek Science Olympiad, I don't know what does. So, um As we go through, this is the team. 15 of us. All having a wonderful time. This is uh before the award ceremony. Uh And next is a little bit of data. I didn't want to over data you this evening. Um I love data. I know. I do, too. Uh but this is the number of medals. Uh so, the I mentioned before 10 out of the possible 23. Wright Creek there is all in the
005capital letters. And you can see that, you know, all of the teams that represented. There's some confusion there. Some teams bring multiple teams. There's an A, a B, possibly a C. Uh the bigger schools, they have cohorts of 600 or more students in their graduating class in comparison to Red Creek that averages about 60 or 65. 10 times as small. You can see where we rank with that. Okay. Um the overall results are here. As you can see, a lot of the larger schools, public and private, are there, but Red Creek is right in the mix. And that's something that we always strive for as a team. Um individually, everyone does what they need to do, but collectively, it always pans out that way that we're we're right in the mix there. So, I am
006proud to tell you, however, Just display that for me. Thank you so much. Uh Red Creek was awarded the best small school in all of Central New York uh in that day. So, uh with that said, I'd like to thank the parents for their ongoing support and willingness to transport competitors in adverse weather conditions to school back and forth. It was so nice to see the parents come support academics in action. To the high school administration for understanding what it takes to run a successful program and doing whatever they can to help in the process. Uh to the transportation crew for battling the weather to get us there and back. To the other coaches in both programs who took the time and effort to ensure successful season. Of course, to the Board of Education for
007their continued support. Finally, to our team. Let's be honest for a minute. They do a lot. Not just Olympiad, but sports. As you're going to go through this presentation, uh we'll have some pictures of the award winners. Uh there's someone missing. Uh Bethany Keefe. Bethany came. She put together a first place finish with Kaylyn in Write-It-Do-It, and then headed out for a varsity basketball game. All right. So, we can our kids do a lot. They do clubs, band, chorus. Other leading schools will not allow their Olympiad students to do anything else but Science Olympiad. Here at Wright Creek, we add it to the list of things that I can thankfully say is our portrait of a graduate. We are still successful and we will be for a very long time. I also would like to
008take a minute or two. Uh before I do that though, let me go through some of the pictures. So, these are the events. And these are the pictures of those that received uh between first and 10th place in their respective events. Anatomy and physiology. I see Adibeni there. I see Haas. Uh Bungee Drop. If you were there and you witnessed it, it was amazing. Uh it would They won by a long shot. It was It was phenomenal. Um Chemistry Lab, Designer Genes. So, I think what you're noticing is there's building events, there's testing events, there's different uh core sciences that's in the STEM. And we're all over the place winning those medals. So, this adds to our diversity as a team. Okay. I think there's a little bit of heaviness on bio, but that that's
009a neat thing. That's okay. Uh All right. So, uh I was very uh thankful to actually see uh Jordan and Nathan do Robot Tour. Nathan put a lot of hard work. Jordan put a lot of hard work into making that uh a really neat Robot Tour to watch and see. So. Rocks and Minerals, another science event. Ready to do it. The picture you saw in the beginning, Caitlin holding Bethany's board. But Bethany was probably scoring buckets in the in the interim, so. Uh so, um our success of our middle school Science Olympiad team. Uh for the first time in over a decade, um I decided that these uh individuals uh as part of the advanced eighth grade science program deserved an opportunity to to go forth and and be a part of an experience at
010the lower level, the B division. High school is the C division. This is the B division. It was also so nice to work with Mrs. Johnson for the middle school component knowing that her own child was a part of the team. I'm now officially old knowing that I have coached generational talent. So We were very lucky to have an opportunity to send eight eighth graders to Cicero North Syracuse Junior High on March 7th to compete at the division B regionals. The The objective here was twofold that day. One, prepare with a partner for just one event. These kids have never done anything like this ever before. So we wanted them to have hyper focus on one event and then also explore the competition, see what it looks like for Science Olympiad and prepare for the
011future. So it's kind of like a neat way to kind of get them introduced to what Science Olympiad was all about and still compete at the same time. These eighth graders were awesome in prep, awesome in competition. We walked away with some fun, some good memories, and some great hardware. It was exciting to see any Wright Creek team medal, but to get first place finish on your first attempt, that's simply amazing. Um as we go through here you can see there's first place in Boomilever. We got Sawyer here. He brought his boom with him. Um Kid worked forever on it. Just kudos to him and and Liam for doing a top-notch job on that. Um the team medaled in the top eight in three of the four events that we entered. So each team has
012two people. We had eight kids, four events. Just having half a team, a full team is 15, and being able to beat a few overall schools with just our score in four events is quite impressive. We have Crime Busters, forensics/chemistry event, fifth place with Kenzie Peters and Addison DeVinnie. Oceanography, Earth science event, Louis Alexander and Nadia Bonie. So, you're also seeing the diversity of events again at this level and seeing success with that. These students are more than ready to tackle high school next year. So, I just want to thank again everybody to all the components of of this district for the support and this rewarding opportunity. I have a couple students here from the high school division and one from the middle school division. So, it's the floor is open to you to ask
013any questions of them. I kind of prepped them a little bit as to what you might ask, but feel free to ask them whatever you feel necessary and I'll step aside. Any questions? You the couple of you that are here, a few of you would you like to just stand up and Sarah, can you zip through the front there? Can we get you through up there? Mr. Bonanno, I have kind of an odd question. >> Yes. So, when you were back to the 10 or the 10 top places, why is the number next to us larger? What does that number represent? Cuz eight Oh, the number is my slide. Yeah, I if The number is 270. Yeah, so why would >> the number of points we earned. Okay. So, is the goal to earn less
014points? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so so I mean, I sorry. Okay. The more first points you have, the fewer It's like golf. Okay. All right. Cuz I'm I was confused. I'm like, well, that's a 65 where they're So, before before the discussion with the kids, you'll see that eight teams schools can only send one school. But, so FM has two up there, you see. So, the FM B cannot go to states. Jamesville-DeWitt High School B cannot go to states. So, that kind of slides us up to six as far as A schools are concerned. We're we're on the outside of one place looking in. That's awesome. >> so again, we're all we're always in the mix. Sometimes we're the last in, last bit in, last first one out. We're bubble team like circus basketball a little
015bit, so you know, but but to to compete with those schools of that magnitude is quite impressive. Thank you. Uh we'll start with Ethan. Do you want to just introduce yourself and maybe some of the events that you participated in? Yeah, I'm Ethan. I'm a senior here and I did designer genes and I did physiology disease No, yes, disease disease vectors and chemistry lab. So it's kind of a range of life sciences events and sometimes shows as well. Sophia. Hi, I'm Sophia Steiner. I'm currently a junior at Red Creek High School and I competed in forensics and rocks and minerals. Forensics was definitely Forensics was with Ash- Ashton Keith and we both definitely took on different roles and we kind of split the test up and we went and then rocks and minerals was with
016Connor DeVinney and I think we can both say that I freaked out a little bit, but it ended up being okay and it was a geology focused event. Sorry. I'm Shorter Johnson. I'm an eighth grader at Red Creek Middle School and me and Liam did uh boom lever and uh What what what what do you have to do for boom And for boom lever we have to make our boom lever, which is sort of like a crane, pull lots of weight on this side and not break. And there's lots of compression on this piece, which is force pushing in on it, and there's lots of tension on this piece, which is force pulling on it. So yeah, pretty proud of it. Questions from the board? Did either of our high schoolers do the same events
017this year that you did last year? Yeah. >> And if you did, was it easier this year? So, I I did I've been doing disease detectives for the last 2 years. And yeah, it's designer genes cuz the events were changed like sciences. So, it's actually microbiology this year. Oh. >> a single biology focus, but it's more microbiology It wasn't so much genetics. But so a lot of a lot of common keywords were between them. But the hardest of the test babies couldn't do. So, we can't really make a comparison. Okay. What are you most proud of from your experience? Hm. Definitely the designer genes because you're allowed to have a reference sheet and stick to the test. I wrote down a few things in this communication with the minister and never got them printed. So,
018I went to the test with a reference sheet and I still got third place. So, Ari, what are you most proud of? Well, I've never been to Science Olympiad before and I have cleared the boards. I love it. Just so you know, we're taping this for later. So. Um I would say I was most proud of the fact that me and Ashlyn were not informed that there was a room change at the last minute for forensics. So, we were 15 minutes late and had an entire section that we weren't able to complete because of the time constraint and we still managed to take second place. That's awesome. You're rockstars. Thanks. Any questions? Mr. Bonanno, every time you bring these kids here, I think the board feels brighter after hearing them speak. So, thank you very
019much. We appreciate it. No. Yeah, absolutely. Um, great job, guys. If anybody has ever watched one of our board meetings, one of Uh, so I'm going to ask each of the three of you to come up. I'd like to give you a token, uh, a like a challenge coin for, uh, coming here today and sharing, uh, your, uh, passion for school and your successes in Science Olympiad. So, all three of you come on up and congratulations. Thank you, guys, very much for coming tonight. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Yeah, we'll just kind of, uh, kind of regroup here for a second switch presentation is over. Yeah. So, right, Danielle does have the, an enviable task of following all of our student, uh, recognition ceremonies each month. So, um, And you just lost your math teacher,
020so she Chuck her math. So, of course, uh, uh, tonight is our third and final sequence, uh, related to our budget presentations that, uh, we've taken you through over the last several months. The objective, uh, tonight is to present a balanced budget and then to have the board approve that balanced budget, uh, later on in the evening. So, uh, I'll turn over the presentation to Ms. Tibiasi. Thank you. So, uh, we'll jump right in with the revenues. We saw these last month. The highlights here are a 3.2% tax levy increase would be my recommendation. That is tax cap compliant, so it only requires a simple majority vote for that to pass. You're seeing some slight changes in some of our miscellaneous categories. And then in our state aid, you're seeing a 15.1% increase, which for
021folks at home who've been listening to me talk about this for a few months, you've heard me say we're getting less foundation aid, and then now I'm showing you that we're getting 15% increase. Well, confusing. The 15% increase is really a result of we had debt fall off last year, so we saw a $2 million decrease on revenue last year. That debt is back, so now we're getting building aid on that project, and that's bumping that state aid number back up. We are still waiting on final numbers from the state. They have continued to extend their budget, which uh the budget process, rather, which makes our budget process a little more difficult because we don't have any final projections from them. So, although I've spoken with you quite a bit about how this budget season
022the governor proposed a further reduction to save harmless down to 1% from a 2% annual increase, and in your prior year it was a 3% annual increase. Although we've talked about that quite a bit, both sides of the legislature have put forth a recommendation for 2%. So, this balanced budget does include a 2% foundation aid increase assumption. We're hopeful that we'll see that come through in the final numbers, but at this point it looks like the state will not have a final budget adopted until the time that we are voting on our budget. So, we've got to make that decision and move forward. And that seems to be the most likely scenario at this point. But, for the sake of conversation, just know that that is an assumption on our part, and that may change
023depending on what the legislature finalizes. So, overall, those are really the major changes. Use of ERS reserve and appropriated fund balance are the same year to year. That's really important because we've been trying to reduce our reliance on fund balance and reserves. That's basically the district taking from its savings account to balance the budget and close the gap. Last year, we were able to replenish those savings accounts from the end of year surplus. We are To be financially stable, we need to be able to do that every year. Otherwise, our savings account total balance decreases year to year. So, we're looking to do that again. But, that number staying flat year to year is a stabilization of our use of fund balance and reserves. Overall, that brings us to just under $28 million for a
024budget with an 11.4% increase. Again, very high. But, when I take out that debt service and building aid increase, the revenues are really only increasing by about 2.1%, which is a very modest year to year increase. And of course, because this is a balanced budget, you'll see that reflected on the expenditure side as well. So, the first part of our three-part budget is instruction, our program. And you'll see a couple of big negative numbers in here. And what I'd like to open up with is that those are not reductions to programming. Those areas, uh the students with disabilities, CTE, and special schools, are really driven by student placements. So, from year to year, we have a different numbers in those categories. Um and that tuition rate typically goes up year to year, but if I
025have five fewer kids in it, that changes what our overall budget in those specific areas look like. Um so, in particular, I'll take CTE. Last year at this time in the budget season, we had uh total 47 students that billed on prior year enrollment. So, in 2026-2027, we'll be billed for 2025-2026 kids. Last budget cycle, that was 47. This budget cycle, it's 31. Just a change from based on which kids are interested in participating in that program. Um throughout the rest of this, regular school instruction, school library, pupil services, and athletics, transportation services, and employee benefits, we're seeing um you know, very minor increases and decreases, just some shifting around in there. Overall in this, you've got a $120,000 increase, which is a 0.7% increase, essentially holding flat across program, preserving our program offerings. That's
026the big thing for this season. Um with things being tightened at a fiscal level at the state, we're going to um we've been able to come through this budget cycle with being able to still offer everything that our students have had in prior year. On the capital side, um you've got your O&M. You'll see that 8% increase, $178,000. Primarily, that would be the utilities that we talked about. So, we've seen our utility costs double a couple of times this year. Unfortunately, those increases do not appear to be slowing down. Um so, the bulk of that increase in operations and maintenance is really attributed to our utility increases. Um we do have increase in employee benefits as well, um just tied to what health insurance plans folks are enrolled in. Um we did see a 20%
027increase um um, for our base health insurance plan. Some plans higher, some plans lower. Um, and then Medicare was an 80% increase this year. So, a really quite substantial change. And then on this side, you're going to see that debt service expense. So, our building aid went up by about $2 million, our debt service went up by about $2 million. They wash themselves out, um, but you'll see that increase on the three-part budget when it's reported. And the last portion of the budget is the administrative portion. Um, again, I would say we're seeing some small fluctuations dollar value-wise in each of these categories. The biggest increase here is in the employee benefit line. And that is because, as part of the three-part budget, we are required to report all retiree benefits under the administration category.
028So, even if someone's a retired teacher, the minute they retire, that benefit cost gets reported in the administrative portion. And of course, on retiree side, we have many more people in that Medicare plan that went up by 80%. So, that's really why you're seeing, um, the largest employee benefit increase on the administrative side of the three-part budget. Um, these fluctuations overall take us to an increase of about $260,000, um, just under 10%. So, that those three parts bring us to a total budget that ties out to this total revenue of just under $28 million at $27,829.73. One thing I did want to talk about that's different, um, this year for us is we are utilizing voting machines. Um, so that will look a little bit different for folks when they show up to the polls
029this year. Um, the way these voting machines work is it's still a physical ballot. So, it's basically, um, for all of our kids in the room, it's like a scantron. So, on printed, there's a bubble to fill. >> I don't know if that helps them. I think I dated it already. Yes, yes. It helps the adults in the room, but not the students. >> I know I dated it already. You know, some of them are going to be able to vote, Danielle, so you got to tell them how it works. >> long as you're 18 by May 19th. You can register to vote and then go to the polls to vote. Um, but it's a printed ballot. It'll be typed up as it always is, and instead of having folks circle, um, you know, their
030individual selections, they'll fill in a bubble. Um, there's still an option to write-in candidates. Um, those spaces will still be there, and basically what happens is you walk up to the machine, um, and you insert it. The machine reads it, says your ballot is counted, and securely stores that ballot in the the base of the machine. Um, so if there were, you know, was a need for us to validate the count of the machine, those ballots are all maintained in a secure, um, box within the machine. So, for folks who have voted before, um, it's going to look very similar to what they've seen at the polls. They'll come up, get your name, sign in through your regular process, and go through that. Um, for folks who have not voted before, our process, um, remains
031largely the same. It's been updated slightly because of some new requirements for, uh, reporting results and information prior to the election process. So, if you've not voted before, um, and you're not in our list, we'll ask you to give your address and show some proof of residency at that address, your driver's license, a form of ID. And then they would sign in and complete their ballot. Same thing, insert the ballot into the machine. It'll scan that, save it, store it in the bottom of the machine. Um, so this will be different for our process. Um for anyone who's voted in their local elections at the county level, you've probably seen these machines. They're used uh pretty widely. Uh and they The only thing they do for us is basically speed up the counting of the
032votes at the end of the night. They will also help the The software for this will also help our reporting of the additional election information that we're now required. That's a new introduction this election cycle. So, The very last part of my presentation for the night is our formal uh propositions. Um so, for proposition one, "Shall the budget for the Dryden Central School District for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027 as presented by the Board of Education in the amount of $27,890,873 be approved and adopted?" So, we'll pass that through. Um that exact language is what will be shown on the ballot in each of these cases. For proposition number two, we're requesting from the voters $420,000 for uh the purchase of one 20-size bus and three eight-passenger SUVs
033for the use of student transportation. Uh those are scheduled or being requested to be purchased out of our capital bus purchase reserve. Uh what that means is we buy them cash. So, there's no interest payment on the voter for that because we're able to use that reserve for that purchase. And um that capital bus purchase reserve is one that we typically put money in every year to be able to fund these purchases. That's part of that not a rolling fund balance that we're trying to get to. And of course, uh the very last item on the ballot is the election of two board members. Uh two seats for three-year terms. Uh the candidates are Elizabeth Becker, Charles A. Perno, and Seth Gold. Uh this is the order that they will appear on the ballot. So,
034folks can uh vote for up to uh two. They can choose to write in two as well. Like I said, the machine will have that capacity to read the write-in votes for us. Any questions on the final balanced budget and revenue statement? Just have one. Um with the state not telling us that we're going to be at 1% or 2%, um my assumption is that you've kind of built in enough of a buffer, so if they come back and say it really will only be 1%, we'll be okay, but is that a correct assumption? So, I would say every budget um is I use conservative budgeting practices because whether it's the state saying that 1% has changed or for instance, we have a new student moving in who is a high-cost student, um there's always
035some changes that happen between the vote and school starting up in September. Um that said, uh with the state not being finalized, I would say that if there are any changes, we would of course have an assessment and conversation of where we're at. Um we evaluate and assess how a budget is performing multiple times throughout the year regardless, you know, that specific instance aside, it's a regular part of maintaining the budget is to see how we're performing versus how we projected we were performing a year and a half ago when we were doing budget development. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, kudos to Danielle and her team, uh and the administrators for for putting this uh budget together. I'm proud proud of the budget. Uh if anybody has been watching
036a lot of the news, uh you know, I think the unfortunate reality that that so many schools right now are facing is uh you you know, you're seeing some schools that are that are having to look at making cuts somewhere in their programming or staffing. You know, we've been fortunate enough through some sound budgeting practices over the last couple of years to put ourselves in a position to to avoid having those um discussions right now. So, um you know, again, kudos to to the board and to the team for for their insight and wisdom as we as we walk through that. Uh it's challenging times. It's only in the foreseeable future it appears that it's only going to become more and more of a challenge and I think it's something uh as Danielle indicated that,
037you know, we have to reassess these things on a continual basis uh and monitor what the forecast of those things are, but uh you know, the reality is uh in the coming years we're we're going to have to have some some real conversations about what that looks like. So. Um I think the real kudos goes to you and your administrative team, Danielle, because I don't think that we would be in the place today if you guys weren't here in this position. Thank you, Ingrid. Thank you. Uh I love to be able to share some MVP tidbits with folks. So, this month uh 27 award winners for us. And we're going to have an annunciation uh test for Mr. Van Orman here this evening. Uh the first one Yes. Uh so, Mrs. Lapp uh down in
038our elementary building um she is not only super talented an abundance of knowledge of OT, occupational therapy. She's very supportive and has a great sense of humor. She truly cares not only for her students, but for her adult friends here at Kyler as well. She's worked with my daughter many years ago and Sue always has been her favorite. You rock, Sue. So. Um coincidentally uh the next one I would like to read is from Mr. Uh who remains in our audience here this evening. Mr. Brenneman is the kind of teacher you can walk into his class having a horrible day and leave with a completely different attitude on your day. Mr. Brenneman was so understanding and overall a great teacher. I always hear in the hallway how he's a favorite teacher or a good teacher
039and I completely agree. He is so understanding and patient with all of his peers and is and is just as a funny, sweet teacher. Um in addition to that, I think you heard from him his commitment and passion tonight for service to our students as well. So, um Mr. Brenneman. Uh hey. And the last uh one that I'll read is from uh Nathan Susamichida. Uh who is our middle school English teacher. Good job. So. There we are. Uh Nathan gives up gives teaching 125%. He is bound and determined to lead his students to deeper levels of literacy and greater opportunities for life. He does all of this with passion and also a nice dose of humor. Nathan is a great addition to our ram elite. I did not write that part. Uh so. Uh you
040know, I think you hear the the personalities of the adults, you know, through the tone that you're hearing and I think you know, those are the kind of things that set us apart. Uh is is that our staff truly care and not only words but actions. Um that speaks to the to the ones I read tonight. So, congratulations to our MVP awards. Great. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to the minutes of the regular meeting from the 18th. Can I have a motion, please? May I make a motion to approve C and D minutes and the financial reports? You may. I'll second that. Thank you very much, Mrs. Decker. Questions, corrections on the minutes? You ready? Mrs. Allen? Yes. Mr. Joyce? Yes. Mrs. Decker? Yes. Mrs. Damon? Yes. Mrs. Foote? Yes. Mrs. Kaiser?
041>> Yes. And Mrs. Madigan? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve the entire consent agenda 1 through 7. I'll take that. Second? I Yes. Yes. My short answer is yes. So, I need a second or I need I need something different. Um Nancy could be amended to pull out 3 1. You want to not approve the consent agenda as a whole? Yes. Yeah, I discussed We could still we can still have the conversation um either way, but if that's what we we could still do that the the same kind of way if we wanted to. So, can I have a second or can I Sure. A second? Okay, thank you Mrs. Allen. What was the I don't really know. Is this the concern of E1 through
0427, sorry. Thank you for re-clarifying. Okay. Did you get that? E1 through 7 is the thing with Mrs. Allen. Did you get that? Yeah. Okay, great. Any questions? Mr. Van Winkle, would you like to speak to that? Um, entirely. Yeah, so as as I believe Mrs. Decker was was just alluding to, I'd like to turn it over to Ms. DiBiase again. Uh, we have a resignation for purposes of retirement and as her direct supervisor, I think Ms. DiBiase can speak intelligently on this proposition. Thank you. So, I'm very sad on behalf of the district to say that Pam is retiring, but she has start She's worked with us for 27 years. She started with us in 1999 as a substitute and worked her way through the kitchen and has been leading the charge for many
043years on that front. Um, she's served our school community so diligently and with so much care over the last several decades. You know, she's put on so many events like the junior supper and brought celebrations to life across the district for students and staff. So, I I would like to say thank you to her um, for all the work she's done and the care she's put into it across the many years she's been here. And I wish her nothing but the best in retirement and hope that she'd like to come back and sub for us as we often do with our retirees. Okay. It's hard to say that Is anybody else looking at a resignation letter? It a say anything about her mother. So, she's taking her with her or I don't think we should
044accept it if so. We've had that discussion. Mr. Roman, did you So, thank you, Danielle. We wish her wish her lots of fun times in in retirement. Hopefully, she'll be back. So. This board certainly will miss her, um especially her goodies. Some of us more than others. The recipes, too. Or is it past? Thank you. >> recipe book. Thank you very much. Mr. Roman, did you want to speak to? Yes. Including in in this same consent agenda, we also have a a tenure recommendation for several several of our teachers and one of those teachers is here this evening. Mrs. Hildreth in the back. So, just wanted to recognize her for that accolade. We're we're confident that it's going to go through. So, we're going to clap early. We'll clap afterwards, too. Any other questions? You
045ready? Mrs. Kaiser? Yes. Mrs. Boltz? Yes. Mrs. Damon? >> Yes. Mrs. Zecher? Yes. Mr. Joyce? Yes. Mrs. Allen? Yes. And Mrs. Madison? Yes. Mrs. Hildreth, congratulations. I'll get to that in a second. All right, we're going to move on to uh uh afternoon business. Can I have a motion, please? I'll make a motion 1 through 8 What? I have to apologize. We had a second tenure recommendation. Sorry, I almost whacked you in the arm. I I completely overlooked it. Mrs. Kaiser caught me or somebody on that committee. >> Everybody on this end. We knew what was going on. I'm just telling them. Like uh so it also we have Mrs. Smith um also in in in attendance tonight. You just voted on her tenure. >> Congratulations. So happy you're here. It's a little warm in
046here and it smells like onion, so we're we're a little off our off our game. I don't know why we weren't on the ball. I thought the silence was just like nobody wanted to make a motion. I'm like, "Okay, I'll do it." Good thing I was writing it short cuz I couldn't write it quite fast enough. Mrs. Staman, were you in the midst of a I'll I'll still make the motion 1 through 8 unless it's somebody something different. Second from Mrs. Folds. Okay, so this is a chunk. I'm um I think before I say that I don't know with 8 we might have to name out who we're voting for. So so I'm going to I'm going to ask if we do 1 through 7 if that's okay. Thank you. Mrs. Folds. I'm going to
047change that through for F 1 through 7. I'll take any questions or conversation on that group. When you're ready. Mrs. Decker? Yes. Mr. Joyce? Yes. Mrs. Staman? Yes. Mrs. Kaiser? Yes. Mrs. Allen? >> Yes. Mrs. Folds? >> Yes. And Mrs. Madigan? Yes. Okay, so for F8, I know this is always a little clunky. So, do we want to start with the budget? It's not pulled out like that, but could we Can we vote that way? All right, so We'll take a Okay. Try to help. I take a motion to accept We accept the motion. Okay, Mrs. Decker and a second by Mrs. Folds. All right. So, this is just specifically for the budget. Any questions or comments on that? Okay, when you're ready. Mrs. Folds? Yes. Mrs. Allen? Yes. Mrs. Kaiser? >> Yes. Mrs. Damon?
048Yes. Mr. Joyce? Yes. Mrs. Decker? Yes. And Mrs. Madigan? >> Yes. Okay. Onto the candidates. So, I would need a motion for each person or not. Yeah, for three seats. I have quite concerns over the current board of BOCES. We have They have financial issues. They can't Sorry. Um they're not doing their due diligence. They all have gone to training. They seem not to be practicing what they've been trained on. Um it's very disheartening about what's going on. I don't feel that they're providing the best experience for our students. So, I personally can't support anybody who's currently on the BOCES board and moving forward. Is there a motion to vote for anyone? So my only motion is to go with Deborah Koerner. Are we allowed to just vote on? We are. Up to three. Is
049and currently on the BOCES board? She is finishing her ninth year at the Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES board and was president of the board for three years. Um all right. And Phil Rose was on the board previously for eight years. All right, I'll take I'll take that motion for to vote on Deborah. Would you second that? Yes. Okay. Go ahead with your comment. Um I was just going to say um I I'm with Nancy. But I would say um I've interacted with Linda Ignarra quite a bit um between like four counties and different like NYSSBA events and I think that she has been really receptive to conversation and or thoughts, concerns. Um so I would also um nominate her or or vote for her. That's okay. >> Yeah, we can just kind of have an open
050discussion at this point. Other comments? We're going to go through them as a vote at the end. So So we have another one down there. Okay. And Phil and then Phil is bringing back some experience. I was on it I was looking at him. He's been off the board, he wants to come back. And I think it'd be good to get somebody else in there. So I'm aligned with Phil there. Anybody else? So, the only thing that I would say to this is that I think, and and correct me if I'm wrong, that this board was pretty clear in their frustrations of the way that the budget was delivered this year. So, I I'm a little partial to um side with Mrs. Dingman's comment because I'm just a little concerned when you have the same
051people coming back, you're going to get the same results. So, um there are if I research this correctly, there are other board members that currently sit that are not up for their term that do bring some experience back. Um and I just, you know, for us being way out here on the end of our group, I'm not really sure that um we're being represented as as much as I would like. So. Linda, remind me again, Linda is what to us? Is she some sort of advocacy like representative to specifically the Red Creek? No, she's just the closest district. >> North Roseville County. Yeah. I thought she um I apologize cuz I didn't like look at the Doesn't she send us a letter every every year with like um some information about what her specifically what
052her role is? I've received one from Mr. Rose as the president in the past. I don't think I've received one or I might not remember. I don't know if anyone else remembers. I believe I have. And not just from Linda. It's from others. Okay. Like maybe when they return to the board or get on the board? Gotcha. Right. That could be. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think she might have provided services at some point to our kids' speech. Well, she was a Yeah. Way back then. Like CPSE level maybe? Yeah, I I couldn't speak intelligently one way or another to that um without double-checking one way or another. Um Other thoughts? I tend to agree in terms of not bringing back the same folks. Sounds like we have three names up in the
053air at this point. So, we have four candidates for three seats. We have to vote up to three. Yeah, it looks like three They can be three separate motions. So. I will. So, Nancy, you're proposing that we just vote for the one person that would be bringing >> I See, I I felt the same way that you did. You know, Phil looks like he would like to come back. Um, since that's a re-election, but or it's a new one election, so I could support both Deborah and Phil. If you would like me to make that a motion, I can. I I'm in favor of Linda, as well. That could be a separate motion. Yep, that's I don't know who's seconding. First time from Mrs. Zaiman. So, you make that a motion. Is that that I
054heard? So, is that okay to amend that, too? >> that's what I don't know if would be for Mr. Rose, as well. We would vote on those together. Is everyone comfortable in voting as you vote one way? Yeah. Mhm. Okay. So, Phil up and Deborah. Correct. Questions? Comments? Okay. So, We'll just do a Yep, one Yeah. Okay. So, we'll do um, all in favor of Deb I can't talk. What is her name? Deborah. Deborah, thank you. Deborah Korsner. All in favor, hands up. Okay. Any opposed? Any abstentions? 7-0. And then we'll take Philip Rose. All in favor? Any opposed? Any abstentions? 7-0. I would >> a second motion for Linda Wagner. Can I have a second, please? This is Alan. Sorry I didn't see your hand again. And she's currently on it now. She is.
055Any more comments? Okay. All in favor? Three. Opposed? Four. Do we need to And I can't remember and I apologize, but do we need a motion for the last since we didn't vote for three? Do we need to vote on the last person at all? It's just like a school election. You can vote up to >> Two, so we don't even have to answer. >> make motions, all right? Okay. Do you have the counts? Yep. First of all, thank you very much. All right. >> Would you I'm sorry. Um since tonight is the all for one one for all vote for BOCES, would you let us know in your in an update of Yeah, when I get an Yes, when I get an update, um all the school districts are in Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES are
056voting tonight and uh we have to report those uh results tomorrow. So, I can when I get an update, I'll send those along. Thank you. Okay. Any questions on administrative reports or um student was ill and left. Thank goodness. He was not looking so great. So, any questions? Okay, Mr. Miller man. Yes, thank you. Couple couple quick before I jump in here. Um Big shout out to Marty Metaw and our drama production kiddos from this last week. Our rendition of Peter Pan was superb Friday and Saturday night. Great attendance, a huge cast this year and they just really knocked it out of the park. Um Had the pleasure of seeing them on Friday night and then on Saturday just a secondary shout out. Just I just left euphoric in on Saturday. Came up for the
057pancake breakfast and the craft fair and then the chicken barbecue. Just the overall sense of pride feeling so many community members and faculty and staff just giving of their times. All in the nature of doing things for our kids. Um You know, so many of the board members were there as well at some of those different things supporting our kids. So, just it was just a really prideful moment, you know, this past weekend. Seeing kind of the fruits of everybody's hard work. So, you know, big shout out to everybody that was involved with all those pieces. Um Aiden was prepared to share this and unfortunately again as Ms. Madigan indicated he was not here. Um In just to follow up for the board and keeping with where we are right now in in in the
058election and the nomination of board members season. We've been using a similar format at the high school for our student board rep to replace Aiden as he um will be graduating. Uh the hope, the design that we had talked about was getting one senior, one incoming senior, and one incoming junior so that there were two seats, two different voices and opportunities. Um we put out uh advertisements and marketing to select have students, excuse me, apply, submit applications. This year we received three applications uh during the timeline. Uh all three of them, however, are going to be incoming seniors. So, the again, the hope and the design was one incoming senior, one incoming junior. The the regulation is a student board representative minimum. Um so, little thoughts, opinions maybe from the Board of Education. We can
059certainly move forward with our selection process with those three. Or if the board really feels strongly about trying to find a junior, incoming junior, I can work with Mr. Gaffney, um who would then work with some of our 10th like our 10th grade advisor, Bridget Johnson, and some of our 10th grade classes to recheck in with sophomores to see if any of them have interest and maybe just didn't understand uh to put that application in. Just a little direction, guidance, thoughts, opinions one way or another. Uh it appears that we should be in a good spot to get two names. It's just a matter of if you would like two seniors or if you would like us to try to get see if there's any incoming juniors and then fall back on this. So, thoughts,
060opinions? I think it's up to Mr. Gaffney. >> Yeah, I However, you can bring somebody along. I mean, Well, we'll get you we'll get you one. Yeah, we'll get you, you know, um to me, the value of having two different grade levels is you might get different perspectives uh at different times um where maybe you'd have some redundancy at the senior class level uh but again, maybe with having two, it balances that load out a little bit. So, you know, seniors go through a lot of, you know, there's a lot of stuff for seniors. Uh so, having a second set of hands and eyes might lighten the load. So, uh I'm thinking in an ideal world, if we could have a junior and a senior, that could kind of pass the torch along. It would
061be nice, but You also have to think about junior wanting to commit to two years. >> Like, what if a junior comes along and they're like, "I don't really want to do this?" Who would want to commit to three years? But, I think even two seniors would be good cuz, you know, if Eden has a sporting event, maybe Or is sick, so he doesn't come in here. Right, right. So, I think there's some value in having two. I also think that, you know, having two people would also give two students pushing back in out information to other students who might possibly Yeah. So, whatever Yeah, absolutely. Uh and we can kind of leave that as a standing hope, desire, goal of getting one of each grade and and depending on a year-to-year basis, I'm sure
062that'll uh fluctuate a little bit. So, but uh looks like we're in better shape this year. So, um All right, our enrollment data uh you know, again, uh it ticked up, you know, slowly but surely. Uh ticked up. I have signed, again, a handful more uh student registration packets, and I know of one more in the works. So, um at least maybe a sure sign of maybe some short-term stability, stabilizing of of our numbers on that. I uh did attend recently a a local consortium of some other Wayne County schools, and seeing some parallels in the six schools that were in attendance, uh six schools that were represented, all six of them we looked at enrollment data from 2000 and compared it to 2026, and across the board in every one of the six schools
063at minimum was a 35% decrease in enrollment from all six of those schools uh in the last 26 years. So, um And interestingly, we were on the lower percentage end. Th- You know, we were in the 35-ish, not the 55-ish percent range. So, um It's a challenge I think every school regionally is facing, so uh or many schools, and grappling what that might look like going forward. So, um And then, of course, uh trying to start uh try to do a better job of sharing some um some pictures and correspondence related to our uh cap- ongoing capital project Anybody that's driven into our campus in the last couple of weeks probably has come face-to-face with the reality that we are under major construction at this point outside. Um I think we've tried to be as
064good as possible, trying uh to be as non-disruptive as possible with this, understanding that it is a in the middle of a capital improvement project, um a lot of big equipment out there. We're trying to be safe. Uh the work that you see out there in the main lot and the student parking lot areas is scheduled to be completed um in the next few weeks by the end of May. I say next few weeks, it's a month. Um We're waiting on the quarries to open, which should open in early May, and then we can get the paving and the striping done in those two areas. And then no other asphalt work will be taking place until July. Um The priority of getting something of that started is just the scope of that work and trying
065to manage the ins and outs even though in the summer we still have, you know, programs and opportunities. So, this will give us some traffic flow pattern options in the summer when the rest of it is getting getting chunked away. So, um Of course, see the pool. Uh I know Elizabeth, Mrs. Decker, got a chance to see this a couple weeks ago when I met with the Community Center Advisory Board. You folks a couple months ago had a chance to see it. Uh right now they're in the process of painting the ceiling. In there, it's going to be a white ceiling, and then uh they're going to start reinstalling the the ceiling work and then the the trenching and the tile work on the deck. So, coming along. Uh that's been kind of on that.
066So, uh and then the last picture you saw is uh some of our elementary classrooms. Uh over prior to spring break we moved nine classrooms in the elementary school so that they could begin demolition uh and the reinstall of those nine classrooms. 27 classrooms total. Uh Is that right? 29 20 It's 27. 27, and then uh just just gives us a head start on that, right? So, it leaves 16 more that need demoed over the summer. So, um somewhere right in that ballpark. So. Questions, comments on any of my updates? I'd be excited to see a picture of the school with water in it. It had water in it. It held water. >> I'm coming. Uh so >> I feel like there's a lot of our community members that are interested in swimming again. >>
067Yes, absolutely. I would just like to thank you, Mr. Van Orman, and probably other people in the room who worked really hard for the Rage tournament to get the parking lot to a position where um people didn't have to walk from Fuller's to the school. Um I was really impressed with how much you guys were able to consolidate everything. So, appreciate that. Yeah, it's great that you recognized that. That was purposeful. Uh we just know how big attendance-wise that event is. Uh and and so many of the folks that come come from outside. They're not familiar with our campus. They don't know where to park. They don't know where to go. So, trying to make it as easy and user-friendly as possible for everybody. Um it it worked out, so I'm glad. Uh and then
068the last thing, I know Ms. Diviassi put this in her budget presentation. Um just official notification on the uh the ballot order selection, which was drawn Tuesday morning um by Ms. Osborne. Three names for two slots, two incumbents. Thank you, Ms. Decker and Ms. Fultz. Um and you see the names and the witnesses. So, that'll appear on our upcoming elections. Perfect. Any questions? Okay. Um I would take a motion to move into executive for a particular personnel matter, please. Ms. Decker in the second by Ms. Dingman. Thank you. You you a signature. See one of those people over there, so you can prove that you were